compassion

"Compassion means to become close to the one who suffers. But we can come close to another person only when we are willing to become vulnerable ourselves. A compassionate person says: 'I am your brother; I am your sister; I am human, fragile, and mortal, just like you. I am not scandalized by your tears, nor afraid of your pain...'" Henri Nouwen

Autodidactism and “unschooling”

http://www.themuse.ca/articles/52316

Please read the whole post at the link above but here is portion of it:

“Unschooling is only part of the equation though. A trip to the grocery store is an obvious venture to teach a child to count money. But what experiences will teach differential equations, quantum chemistry, palaeopathology, or combinatorial optimization? Eventually, experiences won’t be enough and you’ll need to find other supplemental means of learning. This is where autodidactism comes in.

Autodidacts are people who teach themselves whatever grabs their interest.”

 

I find that our family falls into this area of learning… unschooling with the encouragement to be autodidactic.

Good advice